Strangers in a Garden

Strangers in a Garden

Deanna Maclaren

Deanna Maclaren

Laura James has no idea when she falls in love with Adrian Fry in the summer of 1963 that their love will ask so much of them. Over the years, Laura's best friends – including the eccentric Lola, photographer Tom and his exotic girlfriend Cressida – will all have their parts to play in the twists and turns of Laura's life. When Adrian cheats on Laura, she throws herself into a series of ill advised flings, including an affair with Tom and an erotic, dangerous liaison with a member of Parliament. As scandal finds her, her livid brother manipulates her into becoming the main carer to a mother she dislikes. But even then, hidden away as she is, it's only a matter of time until her past comes to claim her as a series of explosive revelations force her flee to France, where she hopes to live a quiet life in pretty Menton. As Laura's story comes full circle, she meets Adrian again – but has too much happened or can they finally find the happiness they've been...
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The Price of Love

The Price of Love

Deanna Maclaren

Deanna Maclaren

Seeking adventure, and encouraged by her French lover,?Jean-Paul, Helen heads for Paris. But Jean-Paul is furious when she gets a cleaning job and starts an affair with sexy bad-boy Alexis.?Through Alexis she is introduced to a Parisien swingers' club and Alexis' wild-child sister Malveen. When?Jean-Paul suddenly passes away, Helen is comforted by his son Marc. And then things take a further turn for the worse...?Malveen is locked in a dungeon cave by her new husband and, on escaping, murders Helen's employer. Marc flips and Helen bolts back to her family in?Southwold, Suffolk. But Marc follows her... The?Price of Love is a scintillating read that will appeal to fans of romantic fiction.
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In Bed with Mr. Plantagenet

In Bed with Mr. Plantagenet

Deanna Maclaren

Deanna Maclaren

London, 1969. The beautiful, liberated Eugenie meets David Plantagenet as he is selling ice-cream in Oxford Street. Despite the age difference – David is just 17 – he moves into her elegant Marylebone apartment and persuades her to marry him. But David dreams of world travel and the following year jets off on his world trip, leaving Eugenie alone in London. Left to her own devices, Eugenie lands a job on Stet, a new political and literary magazine edited by the eccentric Revel Rooke. Eugenie learns fast and becomes Stet's star writer. But is she married or not? Confused, she consults a top London law firm and encounters the successful, sophisticated and handsome Andrew Millard. They begin a passionate affair which is supposed to be just for fun but gradually becomes something else... When David's best friend Art Carter is badly beaten up by London yobs, Eugenie's dramatic cover story for Stet goes worldwide, reaching David in Peking. He rushes back to the UK, but...
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